Apparently the latest advice is NOT to delay introducing solids until 6 months??

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Took dd to be weighed today and the nurse said I could start introducing other foods. I rather snippily said that wasn't the best advice I was aware of, did she have any research?

Surprised (and I must say, impressed) when she dragged out a bulging folder and showed me two articles with sections highlighted etc. Alas, with dd trying to suck my thumbnail off and ds falling asleep on the floor I did not have the wit to take down the references - am rather hoping some MNer with PubMed access can check for me?

Here's all that I can remember: One article was 2008, the other 2007. The 2007 one was a position statement; Peter J. Smith was one of several authors on the 2008 one; they were both about "complementary foods" (or feeding?); iirc one of the journals was something like "Paediatric Immunology and Allergies"???

Am sorry to be so vague - I was pretty floored by this info and a few other things she said, but she seemed pretty cluey, would really like more info if anyone can help!

PortAndLemon - I've never seen a HV. We live in France where babies are followed by paediatricians from birth with monthly appointments. It was DD's paed who told me to start her on solids at 4 months. Gave me a list of which to start with, in fact.

When I saw her the other day, she said guidelines had changed re introduction of solids but the difference to baby's health, if any, wouldn't be earth shattering.

She is hungry. Consensus between others there too. Fed on demand, but feeding seems to be almost constant now and stressful for mum. Mum refuses to consider food until 26 weeks on the dot. Ridiculous.

Needs weaning.

I may of course be delusional.

re "risk of allergy" from weaning a few weeks earlier - Knowing a bit about allergies and their mechanism, I'm dubious. Intolerance, maybe. Allergy, highly improbable.

You still think you observed a baby of 23 weeks staring at your plate and crying at it, then, themachinist?

You may be right that this baby is 'ready' for solids (who knows? How could we know on this board?) but if you think you saw this, and that it was evidence of serious hunger, then
you are, indeed, as you suggest, 'delusional'.

lol tiktok - your reply to framey reminds me of fun I had in Tesco's once. Pushing michelin-man 20-week ds past some woman handing out Cow & Gate - said, "no thank you, ds isn't starting solids til he is 6m!" (snootily )
Her jaw dropped. "How old is he?"
"5m."
"But what are you feeding him?"
"Breastmilk!"
She looked from ds to the packet and back again. "But it says 'from 4 months'!"
"Yes," said I, "But that doesn't mean I must - and clearly he doesn't need it!"
She just kept looking from ds (and his chins and his moobies) to the packet and back again, clearly utterly baffled.

Great education for the saleswoman